This paper is concerned with planning and optimization of three-phase immiscible Water-Alternating-Gas (WAG) injection processes. This goal is achieved by applying an iterative procedure linking the pore-level displacement mechanisms with a macroscopically defined WAG process.

Keywords:
expression, miscible method, enhanced recovery, micromodel experiment, reservoir simulator, network model, upstream oil & gas, pore body, three-phase immiscible wag injection, flow in porous media
Subjects:
Fluid Characterization, Reservoir Fluid Dynamics, Improved and Enhanced Recovery, Fluid modeling, equations of state, Flow in porous media, Miscible methods
Copyright 2000, Society of Petroleum Engineers
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